Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 12:42:31 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 13:43:13, Christian Kongsted wrote: >Kasparov: >The depth of the computer's calculation gives it certain positions >understanding. Even as we saw today, machines don't >>understand many things. But only if it goes beyond the depth of its >>calculation." >> >This comment by Kasparov is very deep, and its not a publicity stunt. Nobody - >computers or humans - can see the game to the end, and therefore we develop the >concept of positional understanding. For humans, it is indeed a feeling, and it >is at least as important as calculating variations. For machines you put things >on formula so you get plusses for the bishop pair in open positions etc. > >I dont believe that a human that only analyses chess as tactics will ever come >much above 2000 ELO. But I may be wrong here. Whats your ELO, Otello? My elo is not very high indeed...but I know that Mr. Kasparov is famous because he can calculate very deeply, and I believe this is one of his strongest weapon in this difficult discipline. I've read that one of his "quote" for success in chess is : "calculate,calculate and calculate". Regards.
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